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I, Robot: To Protect Book 1

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Full Title:

I, Robot: To Protect Book 1

Contributors:
ISBN:

9780732295066

Series:
Publisher:

HarperCollins Publishers (Australia) Pty Ltd

Imprint:

Voyager

Publication Date:

22nd June 2015

Country:

Australia

Classifications

Readership:

General

Fiction/Non-fiction:

Fiction

Main Subject:
Dewey:

813.54

Physical Properties

Physical Format:

Paperback

Number of Pages:

398

Dimensions:

Width 156mm, Height 235mm, Spine 30mm

Weight:

468g

Description

The first in an all-new trilogy inspired by Isaac Asimov's legendary science fiction collection, I, ROBOT. These books have been officially authorised by the Asimov estate. 2035: Robotic technology has evolved into the realm of self-aware, sentient mechanical entities. the future of the human race is to be inevitably linked with its most brilliant creation. Intelligent and driven, Dr. Susan Calvin is beginning her residency in psychiatry at Manhattan Hasbro teaching hospital, where a select group of patients is receiving the latest in diagnostic advancements - nanotechnology. then the patients begin exhibiting extreme behaviour, from shocking violence to baffling self-destructive tendencies. And when Susan tries to alert her superiors to the situation, she is met with callous disregard by those who want to keep the project far from controversy or scrutiny for the sake of their own agenda. there are some who do not want the future to arrive ...tHE FIRSt LAW OF ROBOtICS 1. A robot may not injure a human being or, through inaction, allow a human being to come to harm.

Author Bio

Mickey Zucker Reichert is a pediatrician, parent to multitudes (at least it seems like that many), bird wrangler, goat roper, dog trainer, cat herder, horse rider and fish feeder, who has learned (the hard way) not to let macaws remove contact lenses. Also she is the author of twenty-two novels (including the RENSHAI, NIGHTFALL, BARAKHAI and BIFROST series), one illustrated novella, and fifty-plus short stories. Mickey's claim to fame is that she has performed brain surgery and her parents really are rocket scientists.

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